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Pinkolol16 — The Lights of Depression
Published: 2017-05-11 16:26:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 830; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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This I only came about with today because I felt this way today and it was hard to make pics because of it, nevertheless I pursued because I enjoy making those Splatoon pics.Today, or yesterday as I'm typing this, I was reminded once again of my ongoing depression with this series. Hobo Bros released a video of them playing through Heroes' multiplayer and the video was hard to watch. They very barely criticised the game for their s****y controllers thankfully, and the comments very clearly were aware of how to play and called them out on it at points, which I also did. But god, they played HORRIBLY (check my long comment i typed it as i watched).
But dammit watching ANY Sonic game, even the ones I like puts me in this state.
The series has never gotten out of the rut of nostalgia filled (Classic Sonic and green hill zone in everything nowadays), sonic-only (shut up i know mania has tails and knux but there's still several old levels to pander to nostalgia in it), unengaging stories and anything else horrible which has just lead into steadily declining sales. Because Mania isn't getting a physical release I'm desperately awaiting those sales numbers for solid proof that their 'fan wishes' are simply a minority.
along with the disinterest of fans
I've been duped every single time since 2011 with this crud. Generations looked good, but the story was crud, and sonic only. Sonic Lost World looked to have a good story, then the game had the worst ever and I replaced it with Woolly World. I watched Boom on the sidelines and cheered for its failure.
Forces, um, HEY REMEMBER GREEN HILL ZONE? IT'S NOT LIKE IT WAS IN SONIC 4, SONIC GENERATIONS (not a sequel my a**), SONIC LOST WORLD (that was green hill with hexagons), SONIC MANIA (YEAH THAT'S COMING OUT AT THE SAME YEAR TOO), oh by the way there's like one entertaining level before we showed off GREEN HILL BUT WITH SAND oh and classic sonic is back.
I mostly suppress this because Splatoon's world is similarly interesting to me now that anytime I look back it's with regret.
I can't even laugh at it anymore because I'm done with laughing at it, that's all it's wanted us to do for 7 years and I'm sick to death of it now.
Listening to Sonic music, playing any old games, watching old games it always brings back those lights of my sadness and then i have a cry and then suppress it again, waiting more months.
The only people who tend to agree with me are the SA3 facebook and consequently two accounts on this website. I don't ENTIRELY agree with all of their viewpoints sometimes, nor do I agree with their tones of presentation, but those viewpoints are something I've been looking to.
Because everything else I've liked about this series has been taken away from me.
You don't know what you have until it's gone they say.
Engaging stories and cutscenes, all gone.
Multiple playable characters with engaging stories, all gone. Reduced to NPC cheerleaders.
Vocal track themes for games
the archie comics (yeah they're dead and I loved those things)
People like to claim 06 did so much damage but this is a slow crawl to the other side of the worst. Especially for Sega. They're not getting anything from these new games, and for good reason, nobody's interested in them.
06 sold pretty well, never mind how it's still harped on for being satanic trash (it's 10 years old people jesus) by everyone I meet as if it's still a relevant topic and people don't realise thanks to all that we're never gonna get anything exciting like that ever again.
The initial Forces teaser was a big tease. You have Sonic in this apocalyptic city running looking like he wants to smash the robots, totally epic but I was cautious, especially when it meant 'help' and then it was classic sonic and i went right back to observing. I've already had it with Generations (you wonder why I haven't touched it since 2012) and Lost World, and Boom to an extent (though I'd always hoped since that announcement that Boom would crush and die and technically it has) so I knew exactly what it was.
It's why I escape to Splatoon all the time. Splatoon cares about its world, a bit, at least to where development is due. The game is still fun, and I enjoy its world so much I made about 200 characters from the inklings in it.
I used to do that with Sonic but I don't anymore, not just because I didn't like that story but because Sonic is dead to me.
In 2012 when I played the Adventure games and Heroes for myself I loved them. I was 14 then, and darn it was worth it. Now I look back on them because I know we're never gonna get anything like them ever again for as long as Sega keeps listening to these people.
the lights have always flickered. It will always be there, but I just keep it hidden most of the time. When it does come out though, I'm defensive.
otherwise, I just care about what I otherwise love. splatoon.
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you're not 'not a fan' simply because you're not a blind sheep who eats everything up with no criticism. Nothing improves if no one speaks up.
I want the game to fail merely because it's not the direction the series should attempt to be going in. Consistently looking at the past and flashing pretty assets in the face with no reason to improve aside from saying 'HEY REMEMBER GREEN HILL ZONE, and BLACK-EYED SONIC, in 2D' when for the last 7 years we've had nothing but green hill zones and going back to the roots and there is never anything new.
I was actually interested in Forces for a bit back when all we knew about it was the burning stage because the burning stage has context and reason within the story to be there but the rest of the game that we now know it is 'green hill zone but with sand' and if that's gonna be a statement for the rest of the game, which it is very clearly looking like it at the moment, then I don't want to pay attention. If I want happy floating worlds with no context, that's what Mario's for, and I don't necessarily want Sonic to be a mario clone, origins aside. Giving context, reason, feeling, instead of the asset itself, is why I'm interested in something more usually.
Mania is looking to perpetuate the attitude that just because the past asset is there, it's brought back and it's totally fine. But it's not, it's simply the asset without anything meaningful done to it, nor any context as to why this place exists. I mean, you start in GHZ in the first game to establish the whole nature vs technology thing because of the contrast in the stage and since Sonic is beginning the adventure that's where it starts. Now it's just there because it's the iconic first stage, and some of us are sick of it at this point, and mania as far as I've seen and heard perpetuates this attitude like there's no tomorrow, oh look, flying battery zone, it's back, because you like it I guess? People were hyped for mania initially because studiopolis was a thing but the moment that stage ratio was announced, hype died down immediately. It's not that big, trust me, and that's why I'm waiting.
People have pushed so many ideas and they've all failed. The physics need to be good, the physics have been improved and nothing happened. Gameplay needs to be good to succeed. Ok then, how about Fire and Ice having good gameplay yet selling abysmally. Going back to 'muh roots' over and over again, that is, since 2010, at least 7 years, isn't fixing it, because all we're seeing is the exact same imagery over and over again. It's not working, clearly, except to a very small minority that just happens to be very loud.
I'm no blind sheep just because I don't like mania or forces. I loved the adventure titles and heroes (I should note, I first played them all in 2011-2012 around the time generations was spawning this attitude), i haven't played the classics, though I respect them for what they are, not what they have created (the false memories of the now-population of the internet) and I've played a few modern titles including handheld titles and stuff. The only titles I hate, are past colours ds (colours ds cares more about its foundations than its wii counterpart, so i separate them) and consequently, they're leading sonic to a slow death.
I'm not about to join the bandwagon just because the lies have been perpetuated so far. Just because the lies have been repeated over and over doesn't make them true. It just means it's a known lie.
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just wait untill the game comes out it like sega can,t please the Sonic fanbase they made a game with out boost and they sill hated it
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and that game had heaps of other problems like horrible controls and a bad story along with really dumb visuals that had again no context or groundedness to its surroundings. Sonic Lost World is NSMBWii in 3D maybe add some 2d in there cuz lol
the moment you know they will is if it sells and nothing is selling nowadays the way they're going.
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but if you had mods they can fix it
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oh yes that says a lot about a game if you need external modification to fix what the game was already doing from the beginning.
Also doesn't mitigate flying donuts and random wisps in a floating planet that literally gives nothing but a flying pig in response to giving its world a meaning. Along with a broken story with random twists coming from thin air because we have awful writers.
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You have 200 inking characters? Boy! You have a lot more than everyone else.
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yeah, though split up across various stories that i made relative to splatoon.
it keeps me occupied from having to think about the despair i'm in with the sonic series
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I see. I was just thinking if you're going to make the comics about those characters that you made.
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i've made several pictures already about them which i've been releasing daily so idk
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Keep doing it. I just saw there's going to be some more clothes in a sequel of splatoon.
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Yeah...... I have nothing to say about the Sonic series or Sonic Team whatever you want to call it. Sega does screw it up about Sonic boom stuff. What were they thinking to redesign those characters? I do like Sonic more then Mario. But i don't over love Sonic. They're are wonderful franchise that i love the most more then Sonic and Mario. Such as Kirby, Pokemon, And Skylanders, (Which is i wish gmod would have Skylanders) And of course i do love Splatoon alot. But i just hope Sega doesn't screw it up on sonic this time for real.
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you're confused about your own point this paragraph makes no sense.
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Oh come on! It's suppose to make sense. If it doesn't...Then i don't know what to say about it. What am i suppose to say instead of this paragraph i made?
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read it, you change your topic halfway through from redesigns to your preferences to other series.
if you want a better example of my concerns, I had a whole thing in the description
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I don't like wasting my time for this because i don't read the long description very much. Gosh! I shouldn't skip those words that you made in your description. *Sigh* Next time...I'm not going to make any stupid paragraphs if i'm not making sense. Geez.
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the description is context if you don't read it you won't understand the point i'm making and it's useless to comment randomly when you miss the point entirely.
so it's gonna hurt to put a little more effort into reading others' processes? Wow, this community is really intelligent about that ¬¬
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*Sigh* Fine. But i'll try my best to read the rest of it tomorrow. That way i'll be able to understand it. I'm not going to make mistake again. Seriously. Mistakes really piss me off.
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It truly is awful to see what the series has slowly become as the years had gone by. Just. It's rather depressing. Ya think after so many years, they'd come to a realisation that their current direction isn't as effective. It's perfectly understandable that you no longer feel a connection to the series. Hell. I no longer care much for any of the current titles or the series current state. But I still hold all the previous favourites and such of mine dearly to me, as I have a lot of childhood memories embedded into them as you know. At least you have Splatoon and all of your Squid and Octo OCs to keep you going and to brighten your day. Being able to find something that gives you such a great sense of joy is truly something to be cherished~ QvQ Hence why I believe it's wonderful that you have so many Splatoon characters. If they're bringing you happiness, then their existence is worth it. No matter how many of those precious babs there are~ uwu
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whenever i am reminded of them though it's painful, because they will be the only ones.
is exactly why i think about them most of the time.
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I know. When it comes down to it, it truly is an awful feeling knowing that the games will never be as good as those. So much wasted potential. I know. And personally, I think it's wonderfully that you have so many Splatoon characters to work with and such. It gives you so much variety in terms of stories and such. Each of them deserves plenty of love and attention. They're such wonderful creations bringing sunshine into our lives. ;v;
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g4u i don't like one anymore
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